Page 3: Historical Events In January - 28

1813  Jan Joseph Rosler, composer, dies at 41 on January - 28.   

1814  Stendahl's 1st book is published on January - 28.   

1815  On this day in history andrew Jackson Hamilton, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1875   

1817  Friedrich Ludwig Emilius Kunzen, composer, dies at 55 on this day in history.   

1818  On January - 28 george Sewall Boutwell, MC (Union), died in 1905   

1819  On January - 28 sir Stamford Raffles first lands in Singapore much later a famous Hotel bears his name   

1819  Sir Stamford Raffles 1st lands in Singapore on this day in history.   

1820  Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev discovered the Antarctic continent approaching the Antarctic coast on January - 28.   

1821  On January - 28 bellingshausen discovers Alexander Island off Antarctica   

1822  Alexander MacKenzie, (L) 2nd PM of Canada (1873-78) on this day in history.   

1824  William Kneass becomes 3rd US chief engraver (1824-40) on this day in history.   

1825  George Edward Pickett, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1875 on January - 28.   

1828  Michel Abeloos, Flemish sculptor on January - 28.   

1829  William Burke, murderer/body snatcher, executed in Edinburgh on this day in history.   

1830  On January - 28 the opera "Fra Diavolo" is produced (Paris)   

1830  Opera "Fra Diavolo," premieres in Paris on this day in history.   

1831  On January - 28 henry Brevard Davidson, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1899   

1832  On January - 28 franz Wullner, composer   

1833  Charles George Gordon, London, general (China, Khartoum) on January - 28.   

1838  On January - 28 aleksandr I Polezjajev, Russian poet (Sasjka), dies at 33 [NS]   

1841  The birth of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, Sent to find the missing Dr Livingstone on this day in history.   

1841  On this day in history henry Stanley, Engld, journalist/explorer (found Livingston in Africa)   

1846  Battle of Allwal, Brits beat Sikhs in Punjab (India) on January - 28.   

1848  On this day in history king of Naples grants his subjects a constitution   

1851  Northwestern University (Chicago) chartered on January - 28.   

1853  On January - 28 jose Martí y Perez, Cuba, poet/essayist/politician   

1855  On this day in history the first locomotive runs from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean on the Panama Railway.   

1855  On this day in history william Seward Burroughs, NY, inventor (recording adding machine)   

1858  On January - 28 john Brown organized raid on Arsenal at Harper's Ferry   

1860  On this day in history britain formally returns Mosquito Coast to Nicaragua   

1864  On this day in history battle of New Bern, NC   

1864  On January - 28 herbert Akroyd Stuart, English engineer   

1865  On this day in history president Jefferson Davis names 3 peace commissioners   

1865  Pres Jefferson Davis names 3 peace commissioners on this day in history.   

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1225  On this day in history birth of saint Thomas Aquinas (d. 1274)   

1312  Queen Joan II of Navarre (d. 1349) was born on January - 28.   

1457  Henry VII, Pembroke Castle, 1st Tudor king of England (1485-1509) was born on this day in history.   

1540  On January - 28 birth of ludolph van Ceulen, German mathematician (d. 1610)   

1578  On January - 28 birth of cornelis Haga, Dutch lawyer/ambassador to Constantinople (1611-39)   

1582  On this day in history birth of john Barclay, Scottish satirist/poet (Euphormio's Satyricon)   

1600  Clement IX, [Giulio Rospigliosi], Pistoia, Italy, 238th pope (1667-69) was born on this day in history.   

1608  Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Naples, mathematician/astronomer was born on January - 28.   

0814  Charlemagne, German emperor/Roman Emperor (800-814), dies at 71 on this day in history.   

1061  On January - 28 death of duke SpytihnÄ›v II of Bohemia (b. 1031)   

1119  Gelasius II, [Giovannis Caetani], pope (1118-19), dies on this day in history.   

1256  On January - 28 willem II, earl of Holland/German emperor (1238, 47-56), dies at 22   

1271  On January - 28 death of isabella of Aragon, queen of Philip III of France (b. 1247)   

1393  On January - 28 death of earl of Joigny, burned at royal ball   

1443  On January - 28 death of robert le Maçon, Chancellor of France   

1528  On January - 28 philips of Cleve, ruler of Ravenstein, dies